pound sand

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

pounded sand pounding sand pounds sand 三单 pounds sand pounding sand 现在分词 pounded sand 过去式 pounded sand 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.

    习语 非正式
  2. 2.

    To engage in a futile activity.

    习语 非正式
  3. 3.

    To go away; get lost; go to hell; to waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.

    贬义 习语 俚语

    All you do is complain. Why don't you go pound sand up your ass and stop bothering the line staff.

词源

Of 19th-century origin. Used as an example both of an activity so simple that almost anyone could do it and of an activity so pointless that only a fool would do it.

来源：wiktionary